Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 29 April 2005 22:29, Jason Wever wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Athul Acharya wrote:
> >> Purging old versions for a few seconds speed increase in portage [snip]
> >
> > Few seconds? Try few miliseconds, if anything, at all, ever.  The
> > original email in this thread gave me the best laugh I've had in a
> > while, until I realized it came from a dev; then I was very sad.
>
> Please don't assume everyone is running your latest and greatest PC
> hardware, or processors that measure in the GHz, regardless of
> architecture.  We have officially supported architectures where a few
> seconds may be a generous statement of the delay (low end SPARC64 systems
> for instance).  The initialization delay of portage is very much felt
> here, either via emerge or other tools like equery.

The initialization time of portage is directly related to the number of 
packages installed. Cutting out excess ebuilds from the tree won't speed this 
up at all. Cutting out excess ebuilds won't have much effect on the general 
running of emerge at all, actually, except for updating the cache after 
syncing.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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